Child&#39;s garment



Dec. 19}, 1922, 1,439,502

CHILD'S GARMENT. FILED ocT. 14. 1921' Y INVENTOR.

Aim we Meyer m I ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 19, l 922.

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ALMA MEYER Gi -LEN, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

CHELDS' GARMENT.

Application filed October 14, 1921. Serialll'o. 507,742.

ToaZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALMA M. CAHN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Stockton. county of San Joaquin, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens Garments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompany.

ving drawings, and to the characters of refer v ence marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This inventionrelates to improvements in outer clothing for infants and young children, the principal objectbeing to provide a one-piece garment which may be easily put on, and will then completely cover the body and underwear of the child, and which may be opened up in such a manner, and without removal of the garment, as will enable the wearer, if a child of comprehensive age, to readily attend to its natural needs,

and if worn by an infant unable to take care of itself, the design of the garment enables "the nurse or parent to readily adboy or a girl who have passed the age of helpless infancy.

The garment has been stated as being particularly an outer garment. but by making sundry minor alterations, such as will.

be obvious to a person skilled in the art, and by adopting of course a different quality of goods, it may serve equally well as .an article of underwear. and as, such will.

form a' union suit such as is frequently worn by both children and adults.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive garment andyet one which wlll be exceedingly ef-' erence indicate corresponding parts in the several views Fig. 1 is a front view of the garment, i will naturally tend to fold together or gather as it would appear when being worn.

ment therewith.

Fig. Q'isa similar view, showing the variousfastenings undone and the front flap lowered.

F 3 is a rear view of a modified form of garment having a back flap.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings,

thenumeral 1 denotes the body of the garment, provided at its upper end with a neckorifice 2 and with sleeves 3 of any suitable length.

The back of the garment. of the type shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is solid, while the front, otherwise symmetrical in size and areasz shape with the back piece, is out out as at 4 for a considerable portion of its area, the upper edge of this cut away portion extend preferably nearly across the entire front of the garment, as shown, while the sides converge toward the lower end of the gai ment and terminate thereat.

. The lower end of said cut away portion is," of such a width in proportion to the total width of the garment at that point that ample room is left for he fabric of the garment to encircle the legs of the wearer beyond the edges of the cut away portion.

The front of these leg encirclin portions are practically in thcform of fiaps 5, each having a fasteningb such is commonly used on frocks and the like at its lower inner edge which engages a cm'respomiling or co-operating fastening7 on the back piece of the garment goods in symmetrical nline- The front of the garment from the upper edge of the cut away portion l to the neck orifice 2 is slit vertically as at 8, one edge overlapping the other somewhat, and cooperating fastenings 9 being provided to hold them together. I

' Shaped to cover the open portion 4.- and overlapping the edges thereof is a flap 10, which is permanently fastened to the body of. the garment atthe lower end thereof by a seam 11, but detachably secured to the goods around the remaining sides of the opening 4 by any suitably spaced number of fastening members 12' of ordinary character.

' The seam 11, instead ofbeing in a straight line, is intentionally curved upwardly from the ends toward the center, as shown, so that the goods between the legs of the wearer undo the flap l0 and draw it down, at the same time undoing the leg-enclosure fasten 6. theiiap portions 5 being then folded over to the sides. Thus the body and legs of the infant are freely exposed, without the necessity of removing); the gar: rent as a whole or undoing the front and'npper fastenings 9 in such cases. At the same time, these upper fastenings may be released at any time without the necessity of opening the flap 10 all the way.

It will also be seen that it will be very easy to place the garment on an infant, since the sleeves are the only parts which form permanent enclosures and the garment may therefore be put on like acoat, and the goods then wrapped and fastened about the legs and up the front.

This st do of the 'ar mentis also aarticu-v larly adapted for little boys use, beyond the infant age. v

For little girls of similar age however, an

I additional and op'enable back flap 13 is provided at the back of the garment as shown in 3, which flap is preferably symmetrical to and the same size'as the front flap 10.

The garment isintended in all cases to have a free or loose fit, the sleeves to be short. and the lowerend to terminate slightly above the knees of the wearer. v

From the foregoing description, it will be readily seen that I have produced such a nnrment as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the dev'ce, still in practice such deviations from such, detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirlt of the invention, as defined. by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to so 'cure by Letters Patent is:

the garment, flaps formed at the sides of said openingand serving as leg coverings with the back of the body portion and detachabiy fastened at their lower corners to the main body adjacent the central portion of the latter. and a flap covering the intent of the opening and to the leg enclosures with the back of the body, enin means on the lowercorners of said lower edge and near the central portion of the back of the body, and a flap covering said opening and detachably fastened to the first named flaps independent of the fastening" means thereof with the body.

3. A. childs garment comprising a front and back oody member having a neck orifice and sleeve members at the upper end, a portion of the front of the garment being cut away from a point below the neck orifice t0 the bottom of the garment to form an opening whereby the front of the garment for the vertical extent of the opening and to the sides thereof forms a pair of flaps to serve as leg enclosures, detachably fastening means between the lower corners of said flaps and the back portion of the body near the center thereof, the front of the body being; cut from the upper end of the opening to the neck orifice, detachably fastening means for holdingthe cut edges together, and a flap covering said opening and detachably fastened over the edges thereof.

4-. A childs garment comprising a. body portion provided with neck and sleeve oriiices. the front of the body being cut from top to bottom and the lower portion of said out being formed an opening, flaps at the sides of the opening adapted to be placed about the legs of the wearer, detachable fasteninp; means between the lower edges of the flaps and the main body portion, and a detachably secured flap covering said opening.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALMA MEYER GAHN.

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